María del Mar Logroño Narbona is a Spanish scholar-practitioner specializing in inclusive social protection, access to justice, and governance in the Middle East. She is a faculty member in the International Relations Department at Webster University in Tashkent and serves as  Senior Advisor on Access to Justice and Inclusive Social Protection at the Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD) in Amman. She received her PhD in History (Middle East emphasis) from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2007, and held tenure-track appointments at Florida International University and Appalachian State University. She has also served as a short-term lecturer at the College of Europe in Bruges on Euro–Arab relations.

Over the past 15 years, Dr. Logroño has worked at the nexus of research, humanitarian policy, and institutional reform, advising UNRWA, UNICEF, AECID and other partners on governance, refugee inclusion, and inclusive social protection. Her recent publications explore the shifting relationship between welfare, political settlements, and humanitarian governance in the region. “Jordan’s Healthcare Divide: A System Aggravating Social Tensions” (Global Social Policy, 2025) analyzes systemic inequities in Jordan’s health sector, while Welfare, Political Settlements, and Protest in Jordan (MENASP, 2025) situates current tensions within broader trajectories of neoliberal reform. As editor and contributor to Accessing Justice in Arab Countries Beyond COVID-19 (ARDD, 2024), she brings together regional perspectives on justice sector reform. Her earlier study Care Matters (ARDD, 2021), exploring the gendered dimensions of care economies in Jordan, was highlighted in national media.